Is there a way to stop auto-attacking a boss but keep them targeted? I thinking of the Arcanotron in the Omnitron Defence Council when at 50% it puts up its shield and you need to stop attacking. What I do is press escape so as not to target it (and keep pressing escape when it is automatically targeted after hitting me). But this means I cannot use rebuke to interrupt his arcane anhilator spell. What I would like to do is keep him targeted, so I can quickly interrupt but not deal any damage (as that buffs his damage while his shield is up). Anyone know how or got any advice on this?

I am not sure - maybe I am misinterpreting what is going on. The way I have stopped attacking in the past is to stop targeting the boss (e.g. clicking on the ground or pressing escape). However, whenever such a boss hits me, it seems I automatically re-acquire him as a target. Whether I actually auto-attack him I don't know - I assumed I did (hence I keep pressing escape). However, you might be right that this is not what happens and I can let him be my target without risking bad stuff happening from hitting his shield.

The default attack button is 1, I know you have proably remapped this but I believe you can re drop this in from the general tab on your spellbook. I tend to just hit 1 again to stop attacking but keep the boss targetted. If you are auto-attacking this has the advantage of highlighting around the "attack" box if active.

This would also apply to the other Omnitron defense system bosses as they all have shields at 50 energy that you don't want to hit. The shield does however go down after about 8 seconds so you can start attacking again.

lythac wrote:Hang on a second, when the boss targets you you start auto-attacking it? That is not the default behaviour. I thought you were after an interrupt macro that doesn't start auto-attacking the boss...

So when any mob hits you, you start auto-attacking it?

If you have no target and a mob hits you, you target it. I think that's the default behavior and it can probably be changed. But I'm 98% sure it doesn't also turn on autoattack.

What I do on that fight is target which ever the kill boss is at the time so I do not end targeting shielded boss and i have a onmouseover rebuke macro i use, make sure you set focus to arcana and i use quartz for cast bars as well. works well for me

on nomnomatron i just keep wailing on the boss along with a mage and a dk the mage just spams spell steal and gets the haste buff from him while casting as often as they can...i think that leads to higher group damage then having tank + interupter not attacking for the 15 seconds or so that he has the shield

our mage usually lets it stack a bit then spams spell steal till all stacks are gone then attacks till the stacks pick up again

and i think if you lose your target you stop auto attacking but if you re target them pretty soon you begin your auto attack again...just something ive noticed on nef when interupting the adds when it gets low and we are waiting for another crackle i de target the dude straight after then if i click on him right away (left click not right click) i start auto attacking imediatly

There is a Stop Attacking function in Key Bindings under Miscellaneous Functions. You can always keybind that to something if you like. It keeps your current target so you can easily see if it's casting something you need to interrupt, and you'll still be dodging and all that jazz.

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